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The Problem With Louis the 16th in France
Jack Schlossberg: Louis the 16th had an intellectual problem in France. He says population growth was making it harder for peasants to find enough land to feed their family. The French thought that they somehow had the system figured out, he writes. But conservative elites didn't see how their privileges were actually making the system go forward instead of realizing that it was holding the system back,"schlossberg adds.